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If you enjoy bathing morning and afternoon and love to use lots of water when you wash your hands and face and brush your teeth, do not go to Davao City. That its people are friendly and hospitable cannot be denied, but how friendly can one remain if baths are infrequent and unsatisfactory and you smell worse after bath?
In Davao City there are four source of water: (1) privately owned well with pumps; (2) open wells; (3) rain water; and (4) the Davao water works system.
If you live in a. place where the water is supplied by a privately owned well with pump, you will be unhappy when you turn on the shower. I know because I stayed in one such place. The water was so foul that the boarders never used it for bathing purposes. I saw each one of them every morning patiently carrying two small basins of rain water into the bathroom, although I never found out what kind of bath they took. Being used to morning and evening showers, I dared the foul odor and soon emerged from the bathroom gasping for fresh air. The next time, I tried breathing through my mouth but it didn't work. I still could smell the foul water.

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